Bangs New or Rare Birds from Western Colombia. 75 



Characters. Similar to //. leucosticta leucosticta (Oabanis) of Guiana, 

 but colors of upper parts and flanks paler, duller, much less chestnut or 

 reddish brown in the adult c? of the new form the back and wings are 

 dull russet, tin- rump and upper tail coverts clear, pale russet, the Hanks 

 and under tail coverts cinnamon-russet. The female is similar, but slightly 

 duller in color and with the pileum not solidly black, but dark brown 

 medianly. 



Measurements. Type, adult 6\ wing, 62: tail, 31.5;, tarsus, 23.5; cul- 

 men, 16.5. Adult 9 > No. 23,445, from near Jimenez, western Colombia, 

 April 16, 1907; wing, 58; tail, 30; tarsus, 22; cuhnen, 15.5. 



Phoenicothraupis cristata Lawr. 



Three adult specimens, two males and a female, were secured at Nar- 

 anjito, Rio Dagua, in June and July, 1908. 



This species still remains so rare in collections that I have thought it 

 worth while to make this record. 



